Willis argues that ethnography plays a vital role in constituting "sensuousness" in textual, ethodological and substantive ways, but it can do this only through the deployment of an associated theoretical imagination which cannot be found ...

The essays focus on aspects of holism including its utilization in current ethnographic research, holistic considerations in cultural anthropology, the French structuralist tradition, the predominantly English tradition of social ...

This exciting new book engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the family, offering empirical material and theoretical analysis which give rise to a fresh understanding of the nature of family practices in modern societies.

Introduces dinosaurs, discussing the different categories, what they looked like, what they ate, how we know about them through the study of fossils, and why they may have become extinct.

The book begins with a basic overview of cross-cultural measurement of sentiments and presents innovative and sophisticated analyses of measurement issues and of homogeneity among respondents.

These poems contain American multitudes, some whispering in sincerity and others bragging with thumbs hooked in their belt loops. In this rich collection, Paul J. Willis invites you in and ushers you out to meet your neighbors and yourself.

Introducing one of the most fascinating sub-disciplines within anthropology, Culture and Identity explores the ways individual perceptions, emotions, beliefs, values, and even experience of the self can be shaped and changed by shifts in ...

"This book makes an innovative exploration into some of the implications and lacunae associated with the recent push by many social scientists to "denaturalise nature".

Twenty years ago, Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger showed in ""The Invention of Tradition"" how new governments acquire legitimacy and status by creating 'traditional' ceremonies and identities. Their work helped.